Stories about the winners of the 2010 National Book Awards in many major media outlets noted that literature professor Karen Tei Yamashita was a finalist in the Fiction category for her novel I Hotel ... and more.

It feels like Fall Quarter began yesterday, yet here we are on the eve of Thanksgiving. In this season of reflection and gratitude, I hope you'll indulge me for just a moment as I share some points of pride.

Over the past months, we noted, through our campus messages, some of the changes on campus that are related to diversity and inclusion at UCSC. However, given the questions we have received regarding the changes, we would like to pull the pieces together and offer you a more holistic view of what these changes mean.

For students who are heading home or traveling for the Thanksgiving break, Transportation and Parking Services (TAPS) invites you to consider using UCSC Zimride to share the ride with others going out of town.

Seventeen UC Santa Cruz graduate and undergraduate students have received more than $87,000 in Sustainability Fellowship grants from the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems (CASFS) to help fund research that includes water quality protection in Italy and the United States, environmental justice in California, salmon farming in Chile, and farming practices in Wisconsin.

Rallies in support of public education are scheduled to take place in multiple locations throughout California on Thursday, October 7, as part of a statewide effort to call attention to the impact of recent state cuts.